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The 41st Wordsworth Summer Conference
Monday 30 July to Thursday 9 August 2012
Forest Side Hotel, Grasmere, Cumbria, England
Keynote Lecturers:
Stephen Behrendt, Jeff Cowton, Heather Glen, Bruce Graver,
Anthony Harding, Kiyoshi Nishiyama, Judith Page, Lynda Pratt, John
Strachan, Peter Swaab, Pamela Woof
*Format and Costs: *The conference is in two parts of 4 full days each,
with a changeover day on Saturday 4 August. The non-resident and
registration fee, which includes up to seven excursions, offers
exceptional value at £235 for ten days (£185 for five days). Full Board
at the conference hotel is available at prices ranging from £510 to £900
(for ten nights), and half board at the YHA for £423.////
*Call for Papers: *we invite proposals for twenty-minute papers on all
aspects of William Wordsworth, his contemporaries and the Romantic
period. Papers that identify a bicentenary theme, 1812--2012, will be
welcomed, as will presentations that reflect upon the achievement of
Jonathan Wordsworth's great book /William Wordsworth. The Borders of
Vision/ (1982).
Our opening night will include a reception in the Wordsworth Museum
followed by a candle light visit to Dove Cottage. There will be a
further opportunity to explore the riches of the Wordsworth Trust's
collections with the curator Jeff Cowton, and to visit the Trust's
summer exhibition /Pen, Paint and Pixels Touring//the English Lakes
across 250 years/. Among our excursions will be the Roman fort and
settlement at Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, and a minibus tour of
the picturesque Duddon Valley in the South of the Lake District. For
walkers the attractions are likely to include Great Gable, Bow Fell, and
an all-day walk from Haweswater to the Elizabethan Chapel of Martindale
via Rough Edge and Beda Fell.
Proposals: *250 word proposals for papers of no more than 2750 words
together with a brief unformatted c.v. should occupy no more than 2
sides of A4 (they will be copied into a composite file). Please do not
send as a pdf. E-mail to the Conference Director Nicholas Roe at
wordsworthsummerconference@gmail.com by 31 March 2012. All
other enquiries should also be e-mailed to this address.
*Bursaries:*Please see the separate announcement of bursaries offered
for the 2012 Conference
Nicholas Roe, Conference Director, for the Trustees of the Wordsworth
Conference Foundation
Stacey McDowell, Wordsworth Summer Conference Administrator.
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Awkward Austen CFP
'Captain Wentworth should be allowed some credit for the self-command
with which he attended to her large fat sighings over the destiny of a
son, whom alive nobody had cared for' (Persuasion, 1817).
'Mrs. Hall of Sherbourn was brought to bed yesterday of a dead child,
some weeks before she expected, oweing to a fright.---I suppose she
happened unawares to look at her husband' (Letter to Cassandra, 1798)
'And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked'
(Letter to Fanny Knight, 1817).
Jane Austen fits awkwardly into existing literary, historical and
critical paradigms. Her work refuses categorisation as belated entries
into Enlightenment discourse, as Romantic novels, or as proto-Victorian
texts. She eludes critics who would celebrate her as feminist, castigate
her as conservative, or otherwise pin down her politics. Her image as
'Aunt Jane', consolidated after her death but already developing in her
own self-effacing persona, is a mask through which uncomfortable,
disruptive, sometimes downright nasty remarks, like those above, slip.
We seek contributions for a collection of essays which, instead of
eliding, address Austen's awkwardnesses: the moments when Austen's texts
resist interpellation into our interpretative frameworks.
Please send 500-word titled abstracts, with a brief (no more than 200
words) author biography, by 14th February 2012, to the editors Andrew
McInnes and Francesca Scott: awkwardausten@gmail.com. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be expected to produce completed essays (6000-7000 words) by 1st
September 2012.
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'Emblems of Nationhood: Britishness 1707-1901', 10-12th August 2012, University of St Andrews
National identity is a central point of enquiry that is repeatedly
called upon in contemporary social and political rhetoric. Our
conference, ‘Emblems of Nationhood, 1707–1901’, will address the roots
of this theme by discussing depictions of Britain and Britishness in
literature, philosophy, and art between the Act of Union in 1707 and the
death of Queen Victoria in 1901. Over the course of this
multidisciplinary conference, we aim to explore how expressions of
nationalism have moulded both critical perspectives on national identity
and their creative products.
Discussing emblems of nationhood in 2012 is a fitting way to mark the
twentieth anniversary of Linda Colley’s seminal account of
Britishness, Britons: Forging the Nation, and coincides with the Queen’s
Diamond Jubilee. Several broad questions could potentially be explored
in the course of the conference: What did Britishness mean in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and how was it represented and
perceived? To what extent is nationalism tied with military events and
empire building? How “British” was Britain before the launch of the
Empire? How did concepts of nationalism enter the public consciousness,
both within the British Isles and abroad? What is the impact of artistic
and cultural depictions of Britain and Britishness in domestic and
international contexts? How can these historical ideas of Britishness
enhance our contemporary understanding of the concepts of nationalism
and national identity?
Alongside panel sessions and a roundtable discussion on national
identity in the period, public expressions of nationhood will also be
represented: we are planning an exhibition of pictorial representations
of Britishness in the form of cartoons, banknotes, war-landscapes, et
cetera, as well as an evening of patriotic entertainment from the period.
Suggested topics for papers might include, but are not limited to:
•Britannia and definitions of Britishness
•Liberty and Empire
•Four nations, archipelago and Britishness
•The Auld Alliance
•British history and histories of Britain
•Foreign and British taste
•Mother-nation and Commonwealth
•The Gothic revival, Gothic novels, and the ancient Gothic constitution
•Foreign perceptions of Britain and Britishness
•National anthems
•Expressions of Britishness in applied arts, satirical prints and cartoons
•The Great Exhibition of 1851
•The iconography of British institutions
•Positive and negative forms of national identity
We seek 250-word proposals for 20-minute papers from postgraduates and
established scholars from across the Arts and Humanities. The deadline
for submission is 1st March 2012. Please email submissions
to EmblemsOfNationhood@gmail.com <mailto:EmblemsOfNationhood@gmail.com>.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the
conference organisers, Dr Kristin Lindfield-Ott (mko4@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Jennifer Whitty
(jw836@st-andrews.ac.uk).
http://www-ah.st-andrews.ac.uk/Emblems_of_Nationhood/Home.html
14th International Symposium
"Romantic Cityscapes"
University of Duisburg-Essen, October 6 - 9, 2011
The 14th international conference of the Gesellschaft für englische Romantik will be hosted by the University of Duisburg-Essen, October 6 - 9, 2011.
The contrast of country and city as well as a number of central Romantic texts representing the city have long been the subject of intense scholarly debate among Romanticists. Only more recently, however, have scholars in the field more systematically begun to explore the centrality of the city to British and European Romanticism. Thus, James Chandler and Kevin Gilmartin have taught us to weigh the implications of Wordsworth's contention that "the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident" was a major impetus behind the writing of the Lyrical Ballads. We therefore invite papers addressing Romantic poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction, visual representations and urban popular culture in their cultural contexts. Building on recent work on the Romantic city and in urban studies, we also welcome papers attempting a more systematic application of key concepts and approaches in urban studies to Romantic texts and contexts. In this vein, it might be fruitful to conceptualize engagements with the city on three interrelated spatial scales: (1) Individual city-dwellers and their responses to their immediate urban environment, (2) Perceptions of the city as a whole and urban Romanticism in a more general and metaphorical sense, plus (3) The city as a node in early globalization.
However, we propose to explore "Romantic Cityscapes" and their literary representation from a variety of angles. Topics may include but are by no means limited to:
- Romantic definitions and negotiations of urbanity
- Structures, strategies and tactics of urban communication
- The politics of urban representation
- Representations of urban complexity: simultaneity, multiplicity and chaos in Romantic writing
- Centre and periphery in Romantic England: London and beyond
- British Romantics as travellers to cities abroad
- Fresh readings of classic texts as well as new discoveries
- Urban popular culture in the Romantic period
- Representations of the Romantic city in present-day literature and culture
If you would like to present a paper addressing these or related matters, please send in an abstract of no more than 500 words, accompanied by a short biographical sketch. The deadline for proposals is 10 January, 2011. Presentations (in English) are limited to 30 minutes. As usual, a selection of papers and lectures will be published in the conference proceedings.
Detailed information about accommodation, travel and registration and a provisional conference programme will be provided on our website: www.uni-due.de/romanticism2011. Please visit also the GER website at http://www.englische-romantik.de.
The conference will take place in the heart of the Ruhr Metropolis at the beautifully situated Catholic Academy Die Wolfsburg (www.die-wolfsburg.de). Since it also offers very pleasant and inexpensive accommodation, we propose that all participants reside there to make for a wonderfully congenial and concentrated conference atmosphere. Expect an ambitious and thought-provoking academic programme and an equally fascinating social one in the Ruhr Metropolis, European Capital of Culture in 2010.
Note: By special agreement, members of BARS and NASSR do not have to become members of the German Society for English Romanticism to take part in this conference – they only pay the regular conference fee of 35 Euros (10 Euros for students).
Please send your abstracts to the local organizers:
Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr and Prof. Dr. Frank Erik Pointner
Department of Anglophone Studies
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Universitätsstraße 12
45117 Essen
Germany
jens.gurr@uni-due.de
frank.pointner@uni-due.de
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CfP Anglistentag 2012
Recent Trends in Romantic Studies
http://www.anglistenverband.de/romantictrends.pdf
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